Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twin Cities, flanked by Republican Governor Luther Youngdahl and Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, Truman rolled through 21 miles of streets lined by 400,000 citizens (police estimate). Every school was out; there were bands, color guards, a 21-gun presidential salute. Truman stopped at the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, at the centennial exhibit at the historical society, at the College of St. Thomas...
From his banyan-shaded terrace, friendly, fleshy, Albano Oliveira, governor of Portugal's tiny colony of Macao, watched purple-sailed junks sailing in from nearby China. He recalled a passage written more than 200 years ago by an English visitor...
Saltonstall, United States Senator and former Governor of Massachusetts, speaking on the "Lawyer in Politics" at Langdell Hall, said the public is benefitted because the man who has studied law has a knowledge of the constitution and can therefore make the legislative bodies adhere more strictly to its rules, rather than letting the courts bear the whole burden of upholding...
President Truman stated that Lehman's victory over Dulles "will have a decided effect on the elections of 1950." His victory gave the Democrats 53 Senate seats to 43 for the Republicans. He had been actively opposed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who had also campaigned for Morris; Lehman's victory was widely interpreted last night as a vote of approval for Truman's present administration...
After the 1944 election Mr. Dulles was made a member of the UN delegation, and more recently he was appointed by Governor Dowey to fill a vacant Senate seat. In both these positions he showed great interest in international affairs, but all the importance features of our present policy have been determined by the Democratic Secretaries of State and chiefly Senator Vandenberg for the Republicans...